112 CHOCODILIA. 



The rostrum comparatively short and wide; the teeth about 

 2I, and stout ; the orbits placed more anteriorly ; the middle line of 

 the cranium depressed ; and the supratemporal fossae large. 



Hab. Europe (England). 



14781. The skull ; from the Upper Lias of Whitby, Yorkshire. 



(Fig.) The type specimen ; figured by Tate and Blake in their 

 'Yorkshire Lias,' pi. i. figs. 1, 2; and also by Owenin 

 his ' British Fossil Beptilia ? — Crocodilia, pi. xvi. 



Purchased. About 1840. 



R. 756. The hinder portion of the cranium, wanting the tem- 

 (Fig.) poral arcades ; from Whitby. Figured by Tate and 

 Blake, op. cit. pi. i. fig. 3 (without specific name). 



No history. 



R. 282 a. The greater portion of a mandible perhaps belonging to 



an immature individual of this species; from Whitby. 



The splenial element is shorter and wider than in the 



specimen No. 47157 provisionally referred to S. chapmani. 



Egerton Collection. Purchased, 1882. 



20691. The anterior extremity of a mandibular symphysis pro- 

 visionally referred to this species ; from Whitby. The 

 reference is made on account of the large size of the teeth. 



Purchased, 1847. 



** Steneosaurus minimus (Quenstedt 1 ). 



Syn. Teleosaurus minimus, Quenstedt 2 . 

 Mystriosaurus minimus, Winckler 3 . 



Probably the young of one of the three preceding species. 

 Hab. Europe. 



37991. Cast of a slab containing the entire cranium. The original, 

 which is the type, was obtained from the Upper Lias of 

 Wiirtemberg, and is figured by Quenstedt in his ' Hand- 

 buch der Petrefactenkunde/ pi. vi. fig. 15. 



Purchased, 1864. 



Generically undetermined specimens from the Upper Lias. 



33095. The occipito-parieta] region of a small cranium from Whitby. - 



Purchased. About 1857. 



1 Hanclbuch der Petrefactenkunde, p. 101 (1852). 2 Loo. cit. 



8 Arch. Mus. Teyler, vol. iv. art. 1, p. 117 (1876). 



